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Thursday, January 18, 2024
Family of slain hostage says Defense Ministry removed stone criticizing government from grave
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The family of slain hostage IDF soldier Ron Sherman accuses the Defense Ministry of removing a stone they had placed on his grave that criticized the government for playing a role in his death.
“Kidnapped, abandoned and sacrificed in Gaza, by the government of failure,” the stone had read.
אמו של חייל שנחטף ונהרג: משרד הביטחון לקח אבן מקברו, שעליה כיתוב נגד הממשלהhttps://t.co/E15MzdY08D pic.twitter.com/08PSAzi5fb
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Sherman’s mother, Ma’ayan, blames a worker from the Defense Ministry for removing the stone from his grave in a military cemetery. She replaces it today with a stone that reads in part, “I’m asking forgiveness for the abandonment, your brutal kidnapping, the fact that you were sacrificed for political gain after the biggest failure in the history of the State of Israel which you loved so much.”
Ron was kidnapped on October 7 and his body was recovered from Gaza in mid-December. Yesterday the IDF said that autopsies of his body and those of two other people that were recovered at the same time showed they had no signs of trauma or gunfire, indicating that they were not killed directly by an airstrike or other IDF action.
The Times of Israel Community.